• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• v.17 no.10
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• pp.4587-4590
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• 2016

Background: In many countries gastric cancer has the highest incidence among the gastrointestinal cancers and is the second most common cancer in Iran. The aim of this study was to identify and map high risk gastric cancer regions at the county-level in Iran. Methods: In this study we analyzed gastric cancer data for Iran in the years 2003-2010. Area-to-area Poisson kriging and Besag, York and Mollie (BYM) spatial models were applied to smoothing the standardized incidence ratios of gastric cancer for the 373 counties surveyed in this study. The two methods were compared in term of accuracy and precision in identifying high risk regions. Result: The highest smoothed standardized incidence rate (SIR) according to area-to-area Poisson kriging was in Meshkinshahr county in Ardabil province in north-western Iran (2.4,SD=0.05), while the highest smoothed standardized incidence rate (SIR) according to the BYM model was in Ardabil, the capital of that province (2.9,SD=0.09). Conclusion: Both methods of mapping, ATA Poisson kriging and BYM, showed the gastric cancer incidence rate to be highest in north and north-west Iran. However, area-to-area Poisson kriging was more precise than the BYM model and required less smoothing. According to the results obtained, preventive measures and treatment programs should be focused on particular counties of Iran.

• Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.96-100
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• 2007

There was no difference in total light transmissivity of covering materials. But the light transmittance of J-2 in greenhouse was by 78.25 which was higher than any other film. The high light transmittance of J-2 was come from low water condensation and dust attached in film surface. The ultraviolet light of J-3 was completely intercepted. The ultraviolet transmittance rate of others was from 62 to 76%. In no heating oriental melon cultivation, the air temperature in tunnel was 15 to $21^{\circ}C$ higher than outer, and the soil temperature in tunnel was 20 to $25^{\circ}C$ higher than outer. Air temperature and soil temperature of J-2 were higher than any other film.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.17-26
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• 2011

We have developed a wearable device that can convert sensor data into real-time step counts. Sensor data on gait were acquired using a triaxial accelerometer. A test was performed according to a test protocol for different walking speeds, e.g., slow walking, walking, fast walking, slow running, running, and fast running. Each test was carried out for 36 min on a treadmill with the participant wearing an Actical device, and the device developed in this study. The signal vector magnitude (SVM) was used to process the X, Y, and Z values output by the triaxial accelerometer into one representative value. In addition, for accurate step-count detection, we used three algorithms: an heuristic algorithm (HA), the adaptive threshold algorithm (ATA), and the adaptive locking period algorithm (ALPA). The recognition rate of our algorithm was 97.34% better than that of the Actical device(91.74%) by 5.6%.

• Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.174-179
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• 2007

Although the relationship between fermentation and factors such as soil water, redox potential, rootstocks and climatic conditions has been reported, its mechanism of fermentation is still not clear. Transpirations of leaf and fruit at different climatic conditions, influence of soil water potential and atmospheric vapor pressure deficit (VPD) on fermentation were evaluated. Transpiration rate decreased with decreasing soil temperature and soil water potential. Low VPD conditions which occurred during low air temperature and high humidity also decreased transipration rate. These data exhibit that fruit water balance affected by various factors relate to transpiration. Our results also indicate that high hydraulic conductance of root, high soil water potential and low VPD condition exert a significant effect on fermention of oriental melon and so called "water filled fruit".

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.400-404
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• 2009

Native Command Queueing is a technology to maximize throughput of disk system by reordering requests in its command queue. Recent S-ATA 2 standard specifies a protocol for the purpose of dealing with NCQ feature, making most vendors implementing it in their disk devices. However, the new feature, NCQ, may lead to information gap between OS and disk drive. 05 considers that disk will service I/O requests in the order as OS has dispatched. Unfortunately, it isn't true any more since NCQ would simply ignore the policy of OS and reorder the sequence OS has expected. Let us define the term as expectation-discord. Due to the discord, serious performance anomalies or starvation of requests may occur in I/O subsystem. In this paper, we confirm that the expectation-discord actually brings about starvation of requests. We propose a solution to settle it. Our solution is very simple, effective, cheap(not requiring any hardware modification) and portable across various OS. Experimental results show that our solution can balance throughput and response time very well.

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.207-215
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• 2016

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the differences in the facial emotion recognition and discrimination ability between children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Methods: Fifty-three children aged 7 to 11 years participated in this study. Among them, 43 were diagnosed with ADHD and 10 with ASD. The parents of the participants completed the Korean version of the Child Behavior Checklist, ADHD Rating Scale and Conner's scale. The participants completed the Korean Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-fourth edition and Advanced Test of Attention (ATA), Penn Emotion Recognition Task and Penn Emotion Discrimination Task. The group differences in the facial emotion recognition and discrimination ability were analyzed by using analysis of covariance for the purpose of controlling the visual omission error index of ATA. Results: The children with ADHD showed better recognition of happy and sad faces and less false positive neutral responses than those with ASD. Also, the children with ADHD recognized emotions better than those with ASD on female faces and in extreme facial expressions, but not on male faces or in mild facial expressions. We found no differences in the facial emotion discrimination between the children with ADHD and ASD. Conclusion: Our results suggest that children with ADHD recognize facial emotions better than children with ASD, but they still have deficits. Interventions which consider their different emotion recognition and discrimination abilities are needed.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.134-146
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• 1995

Aluminium nitride(AlN) is currently under investigation as potential candidate for replacing alumium oxide(Al$_{2}$ $O_{3}$) as a substrate material for for electronic circuit packaging. Brazing of aluminium nitride(AlN) to Cu with Ag base active alloy containing Ti has been investigated in vacuum. Binary Ag$_{98}$ $Ti_{2}$(AT) and ternary At-1wt.%Al(ATA), AT-1wt.%Ni(ATN), AT-1wt.% Mn(ATM) alloys showed good wettability to AlN and led to the development of strong bond between brate alloy and AlN ceramic. The reaction between AlN and the melted brazing alloys resulted in the formation of continuous TiN layers at the AlN side iterface. This reaction layer was found to increase by increase by increasing brazing time and temperature for all filler metals. The bond strength, measured by 4-point bend test, was increased with bonding temperature and showed maximum value and then decreased with temperature. It might be concluded that optimum thickness of the reaction layer was existed for maximum bond strength. The joint brazed at 900.deg.C for 1800sec using binary AT alloy fractured at the maximum load of 35kgf which is the highest value measured in this work. The failure of this joint was initiated at the interface between AlN and TiN layer and then proceeded alternately through the interior of the reaction layer and AlN ceramic itself.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 1999.07a
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• pp.174-174
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• 1999

Pt(001)의 깨끗한 표면은 재배열된 (5x20) 또는 (nxn) 구조를 갖는다. 이러한 재배열된 구조는 소？의 가스를 흡착에 대해서도 (1x1)구조로 다시 재배열되는 재배열인 쉽게 풀리는 준안정적 재배열 구조를 갖는 표면이다. Pt(100) 표면 위에 Ni과 같은 금속을 흡착시키는 경우도 동일하게 표면의 장력을 해소시켜 (1x1) 표면을 만든다. Pt와 Ni과 같은 덩어리 상태에서 Pt와 Ni가 질서있게 교차되어 배열되는 합금이 쉽게 이루어지는 물질들로 잘 알려져 있고, 이 합금은 Pt나 Ni와 동일한 규칙적인 fcc 구조를 갖는다. 따라서 Pt(100) 표면 위에 Ni를 흡착시키는 것은 Nm/Cu(100)과 같은 표면합금이나 Mn/Ag(1000에서 보이는 2층으로 된 표면 합금과 같은 표면 근방에 국한된 질서있는 표면 합금의 가능성이 있다. 또한 Ni/Pt(100)은 Ni과 Pt가 3대 1의 비로 조합될 때 나타나는 Ni3Pt의 층별구조인 표면에 Ni가 채워져 있고, 다음 층에 Ni와 Pt가 50%씩 질서 있게 섞여 있는 형태의 구조 즉 표면 밑 합금이 나타날 수 있는 가능성이 있는 물질계라는 점에서 관심을 갖게 한다. 본 연구는 LEED를 이용하여 Ni/Pt(100) 박막의 층별구조를 확인하고자 한다. PtNi 합금은 ATA(average t-matirx approximation)을 이용한 LEED 분석이 잘 적용되는 물질계로 알려져 있고, 본 연구는 ATA를 적용한 LEED I/V 분석을 통하여 Ni가 성장된 Pt(100) 표면의층별 농도비와 층별 구조를 구하고자 한다. 실험은 기본 압력이 3x10-11torr인 챔버에서 이루어졌으며, 증착시 압력은 5x10 torr이고, 증착은 열증발 방법을 이용하였다. Ni가 증착됨에 따라 (nxn) 재배열 표면에 기인한 extra spot들의 세기는 점차 감소하고 특정 증착량 이상에서부터 이 (nxn)의 spot들이 사라지고 깨끗한 (1x1) 패턴이 나타난다. 계속되는 증착량의 증가에 대해서도 이 (1x1) 형태는 유지되며, 표면의 질서에 따르는 c(2x20 패턴은 보이지 않았다. (1x1) LEED spot를 보임에도 불구하고 덩어리 절단 형태의 구조를 기반으로 한 LEED I/V 분석으로는 잘 맞출수 없었다. 이것은 Ni가 일정 이상 흡착된 경우 그 구조가 덩어리 절단 형태의 fcc(100) 구조와 벗어난 구조를 가지는 것으로 보인다.

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.74-82
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• 2019

Objectives: The objective of this study was to investigate clinical and neuropsychological factors associated with treatment response and adverse events of atomoxetine in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in Korea. Methods: Children with ADHD were recruited at the Department of Psychiatry of Asan Medical Center from April 2015 to April 2018. Diagnoses of ADHD and comorbid psychiatric disorders were confirmed with the Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Present and Lifetime Version. The subjects were subsequently treated with atomoxetine for 12 weeks and illness severity was scored using the ADHD Rating Scale, Clinical Global Impression-Severity scale (CGI-S) and/or Improvement scale (CGI-I), at pre- and post-treatment. They also completed the Advanced Test of Attention (ATA), while their caregivers completed the Korean Personality Rating Scale for Children (KPRC) at pre- and post-treatment. Independent t-test, Fisher's exact test, ${\chi}^2$ test, mixed between-within analysis of variance and correlation analysis were used for statistical analysis. Results: Sixty-five children with ADHD (mean age: $7.9{\pm}1.4years$, 57 boys) were enrolled, of which, 33 (50.8%) were treatment responders. Scores on the social dysfunction subscale of the KPRC (p=0.021) and commission errors on the visual ATA (p=0.036) at baseline were higher in treatment non-responders than in responders; however, the statistical significances disappeared after adjusting for multiple comparisons. Mood changes were also observed in 13 subjects (20.0%), and three of them discontinued atomoxetine due to this. Additionally, atomoxetine-emergent mood change was observed more frequently in girls (p=0.006), while the intelligence quotient (p=0.040) was higher in those subjects with mood changes than in those without. Conclusion: The results of our study suggest that clinical and neuropsychological factors could be associated with treatment response or adverse events of atomoxetine in children with ADHD. Further long-term studies with larger samples are needed.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.201-217
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• 2007

Subjects included Hyomin Kim and Eunha Sohn (fictitious names) of Purum Class (a class for 5-year-olds) at 'H' Kindergarten. Subjects were selected after interviews with teachers and observation by the researcher. This study examined communication with classmates focusing on spontaneous dialog situations and functions. Results showed that Hyomin and Eunha exercised power in the art group and the math groups, respectively. The power exercise processes comprised a variety of behaviors including : to become similar with each other; to assign an exclusive seat; to act as an elder sister; to allow to do something; to keep a friend ata distance; to defend oneself; to threaten or persuade with a diversity of linguistic strategies; to teach like a teacher.